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Drupal 7 First Look

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Drupal 7 First Look

Overview of this book

Drupal 7 contains features for which site administrators have been clamoring for years, including support for fields, an improved administration interface, better database support, improved theming, and more. You could of course make a laborious search on sites, blogs, and many online tutorials that would promise to update you about every new feature, but there's an even better way to know all about Drupal 7's new features: Drupal 7 First Look is the first and only book that covers all of the fantastic new features in Drupal 7 in depth and covers the process of upgrading your Drupal 6 site to Drupal 7. If you've used Drupal 6 and want to use Drupal 7, you need this book.Drupal 7 First Look takes an in-depth look into all of the major new features in Drupal 7 so you can quickly take full advantage of Drupal 7. It also assists you in upgrading your site to Drupal 7. Some of the new features in Drupal 7 include: Fields API, based on Drupal 6 CCK, which allows you to easily build your own content types Improved user interface for administering your website Built-in support for working with images and files Improved security for the site and users of the site Completely rewritten database layer DBTNG to make working with the database easier and more secure. Improved API for custom module development and user interface theming
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
Drupal 7 First Look
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Preface
Index

Upgrading from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7


The Drupal upgrade process allows you to update your site from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7 using a simple procedure. The upgrade process automatically corrects any functionality from Drupal 6 that was removed in Drupal 7 and updates content to use new features where possible.

Before beginning the upgrade process, it is imperative that you make a backup of your site and test the upgrade procedure on a test instance of your site before upgrading your production site. Contributed modules may require additional steps to upgrade them from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7. We covered some of these cases in the last chapter as we reviewed some of the new contributed modules that are available for Drupal 7. If we did not cover a module you are using in Drupal 6, refer to the project page for that module on Drupal.org to see if any additional steps need to be taken during the upgrade process.

You should also review any contributed modules you are using to make sure they have a Drupal...